She gloried in her attachment to the ancient Greek rite, and saw in the papacy nothing more than a troublesome dissenter from the primitive faith.

In America the temporal and the spiritual have been absolutely divorced--the latter is not permitted to have any thing to do with affairs of state, though in all other respects liberty is conceded to it.

The condition of the New World also satisfies us that both forms of Christianity, Catholic and Protestant, have lost their expansive power; neither can pass beyond its long-established boundary-line--the Catholic republics remain Catholic, the Protestant Protestant.

And among the latter the disposition to sectarian isolation is disappearing; persons of different denominations consort without hesitation together.

They gather their current opinions from newspapers, not from the Church.
Pius IX., in the movements we have been considering, has had two objects in view: 1.